Nostrils

Word NOSTRILS
Character 8
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Definitions and meanings of "Nostrils"

What do we mean by nostrils?

Either of the two orifices located on the nose (or on the beak of a bird); used as a passage for air and other gases to travel the nasal passages.

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The word "nostrils" in example sentences

But a camel's nostrils are made differently, so that whenever he likes he can _close his nostrils_, as easily as you can close your mouths, and that keeps away the sand. ❋ Sarath Kumar Ghosh (N/A)

In the pony the area devoted to the nostrils is as large as that devoted to the rest of the body; in the pig almost the whole of the sensory area of the cerebral cortex devoted to the sense of touch is given to fibres from the snout, which the pig uses to explore its environment. ❋ Unknown (1965)

This gorgeous, homemade tiki fireplace complete with smoking nostrils is lavishly documented in this build log. ❋ Unknown (2006)

I remembered what the author of the Book of Job had said about the horse: 'The glory of his nostrils is terrible. ❋ Unknown (1969)

His Grace's thin nostrils wrinkled up in a curious grimace. ❋ Unknown (1921)

Old associations are sure to be fragrant herbs in English nostrils; we pull them up as weeds. ❋ Nathaniel Hawthorne (1834)

And since God, at first, breathed into man's nostrils the breath of life, and breathes the breath of the new life still, the smell of their nostrils is like the smell of apples, or oranges, which is pleasing and reviving. ❋ Unknown (1721)

The breath of our nostrils is taken in their pit, Lam. iv. ❋ Unknown (1721)

20 Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? the glory of his nostrils is terrible. ❋ Unknown (1721)

It is of no consolation to me that medical students are mostly stunted, and that my nostrils are therefore located a good eighteen inches (on average) above the top of their head, because as everybody knows hot air rises, and one can almost hearthe teeming bacteria jumping gleefullyinto mid-airout of the cheap white fabric (50% cotton, 50% polyester, with depressinglylow thread count, I notice) and ascend ecstatically on miniature gusts and thermals. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The sweat poured unceasingly from their bodies, and in their nostrils was the heavy smell of rotting vegetation and of black earth that was a-crawl with fecund life. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Shaharrazad can now summon a felsteed as her mount, complete with molten hooves and flaming nostrils, which is just too damn cool. ❋ Greygirlbeast (2008)

I heard once, from a source of a source that his nostrils are as damages as his anus. ❋ Unknown (2007)

They are what are called catarrhine Apes — that is, their nostrils have ❋ Unknown (2007)

Pheraulas, with his chin and beard all begrimed and bloody, gore trickling from his nostrils were the clod had struck him. ❋ Unknown (2007)

There is hardly any difference between the sexes, except that the casque or bonnet at the back of the head and the tubercles at the nostrils are a little larger, and the beautiful rosy salmon colour a little deeper in the male bird; but the difference is so slight that it is not always possible to tell a male from a female without dissection. ❋ Unknown (2004)

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